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Prayer 04: Being With God
Rule of Life
The Dangers of Depersonalizing God Through Contemplative Prayer
I've been thinking a lot recently about, you know, the kind of Seeker-Friendly Church model that was really big when I was coming up in my church. The idea is to make the church environment welcoming to people who aren't ready for church yet. And there's a real danger that in the contemplative tradition that we do just make God some kind of energy or some kind of feeling," says Strawn. "We run into danger when we make God a program or a system or an ology"
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